In choosing a movie to watch to mark my 500th
full length review, I went with Paul Thomas Anderson’s Magnolia because, along with Pulp Fiction and The Godfather, it’s
one of my top three movies of all time. By that I mean I consider it not only a
great film, but that I find it endlessly watchable. Incidentally, I chose it several weeks prior to, and started watching the night before, Philip Seymour Hoffman's death. It was merely a thematically fitting coincidence. I have tried to watch it
about once a year since it came out in 1999 and have mostly kept up on that
vow. I think I may have watched it twice during my five years in Spain and
possibly only this time since returning two and a half years ago, but I am
intimately familiar with the movie. I also chose it because so much time has
passed since last we met.
